The Illustration zine which i was planning to design and publish has had a lot of positive feedback and interest with 7 people submitting work for it and many others that wanted to.
I've not managed to meet my personal deadline which was to have the zine printed and ready to hand out before the Christmas break because I ran into some trouble printing. Below are a series of miss-prints that I have documented to show errors in my work.
This first print came out wrong because the pages that were meant to be facing each other on A3 sheets, were instead printed double sided on separate A4 sheets.
This second print is in the right order however it was still printed on single A4 sheets then stapled together at the spine which isn't what I designed the zine to be like. It's forced some of the pages to be too close together distorting some of the illustrations.
The third print out came out even worse as there wasn't a multiple of 4 pages to print. The result was that some pages were printed in odd places and rotated so that they were upside down.
The final print that I tried was in the correct order and had the right amount of pages to print properly. However it is still a miss print as the document setup is slightly wrong. I need no to go back and change the document size and adjust some of the content so that it wont be cut off once guillotined.
This is a good thing that these books have come out wrong as it shows I have made some mistakes which I need to address. This is one of the major learning outcomes i was hoping to get by setting myself this task.
From here I am going to:-
- rectify these mistakes
- document what went wrong and how to amend the mistakes for future reference
- reprint and publish on a better stock
- redesign/finish the design and layout of the zine
- propose the second volume of the zine
